Bug#348046: exim4-daemon-heavy: TLS delivery attempts fail with: (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:15:28PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Marc> Hm. Looks like gnutls-cli-debug cannot be used to debug STARTTLS
> Marc> connects. Does hiking up gnutls-cli's debug level offer comparable
> Marc> verbosity?
> 
> Not really :\
> 
> itz at ahiker:~$ gnutls-cli --port 25  -d 5 --starttls localhost
> |<2>| ASSERT: gnutls_psk.c:101
> Resolving 'localhost'...
> Connecting to '127.0.0.1:25'...
> 
> - Simple Client Mode:
> 
> 220 ahiker.homeip.net ESMTP Exim 4.62 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:08:04 -0400
> 
> I assume this is the initial unencrypted greeting.

Yes.

>   It hangs here, have to hit ^C,

You need to manually say STARTTLS, and then hit Ctrl-D to switch the
client to TLS mode.

>  which is actually similar to my original attempt to send real mail
>  from one Exim to another, also hangs.

Entropy available?

Greetings
Marc

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